Critical Conditions: Regarding the Historical Moment
Critical Conditions: Regarding the Historical Moment
edited by Michael Hays
University of Minnesota Press, 1992
Paper: 978-0-8166-2022-7
Library of Congress Classification PN81.C837 1992
Dewey Decimal Classification 801.95
ABOUT THIS BOOK | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOKA significant, masterfully executed contribution to the debate surrounding the “New Historicism.”
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- CONTENTS
- Foreword
- The Scene and the Unseen of the Critic's Discourse
- 1
- Notes Toward a Politics of “American” Criticism
- 2
- Theory, Criticism, Dissent: Toward a Sociology of Literary Knowledge
- 3
- Critical Change and the Collective Archive
- 4
- Irreconcilable Differences: Kant, Hegel, and the “Idea” of Critical History
- 5
- Hamlet, Little Doritt, and the History of Character
- 6
- Hobbesian Fear: Richardson, de Man, Rousseau, and Burke
- 7
- Us and Them: On the Philosophical Bases of Political Criticism